loving the alien.....

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A Manhattan Sunset

I seem to be developing a 'thing' for cool photographs at the moment.

Times Online - Home

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he's done bad things and I'm pretty sure his notoriety will mean he gets at least an open trial, but why arrest him yesterday? They obviously knew about the alleged crimes comitted as long as 6 years ago in some cases, yet the US did not ask for extradition until recently.

Did they perhaps need a nice big fat 'good news' headline as things aren't going so well in Iraq? Is that why his arrest was leaked to the Sun 6 hours before he was arrested? A paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, one of Tony Blair's biggest supporters?

Tin hats on people

Because the New York Times told them they existed, via lying bitch, Judith Miller.:

"At the very least, Miller's editors should review her dodgy reporting from the last 18 months, explain her astonishing credulity and lack of accountability, and parse the false from the fact in her WMD reporting. In fact, the Times' incoming executive editor, Bill Keller, could do no better than to launch such an investigation."

Seriously, this woman has claimed that WMD were used, that she met the gusy who looked after them, and she has never, *ever* backed any of it up.
50% of Americans believe that WMDs were sued against US troops in iraq. 70% believe that Iraq was directly involved with September 11th.
Hardly anyone knows about the massive Saudi connection.

Guardian Unlimited | Cartoons | 27.05.04: Amnesty's annual report on the state of human rights around the world

Illustrated perfectly by a cartoon in the Gruniad.

Legal music sites break 100 mark:

"The number of legal online music services world-wide has broken through the 100 barrier. "

Which means any profits are spread extremely thinly. I'm positive that there will be less than that number in 12 months time. In fact, in terms of the music industry as a whole surely they would much rather have one site which makes a massive profit, can reduce costs and stops downloaders? Rather than 80 who make no profit and fold inside a year sending people back to e-mule?

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Good stuff. Best free anti-virus, best free text-editor etc etc..

More cool stuff.

Be aware, mucho flashing lights, epileptics please avoid.

Zoomable moveable satellite images

10 worst album covers of all time!

Literally

And check out the place name, those wacky yanks.

Lees admits she had second lover:

"The girlfriend of missing Briton Peter Falconio has admitted having a sexual relationship with another man in Sydney before the 28-year-old disappeared."

This reminds me of the woman in Worcs who claimed her boyfriend had been murdered by a guy in a road rage incident when it was actually her.
There is a reason that the first person police question in a murder case is the spouse.

I'm not saying she did it, how could I know, but I knew there was more to it than she was letting on. They still haven't found the body by the way.

Practice makes perfect....

Thanks to Tim for the link.

Wow. Biggest story of the year?:

"'When the story ultimately comes out we'll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history. They persuaded the US and Britain to dispose of its greatest enemy.' "

I personally doubt that even the U.S. is *that* stupid, but it makes for a fabulous story.

Apple Wireless (Bluetooth) Mouse Review

Possibly the sexiest looking peripheral ever.

And one of the most useless. One button? Purleeese

Argument:

"Even a two metre rise is enough to put most of southern Florida under water."

But what's the downside?

This is the very interesting article by James Lovelock which seems to have at least got a lot of publicity for the nuclear movement.
His argument isn't that nuclear power is good, just that it is not as bad as the current fossil fuel culture, and we may only have 50 years to sort it our, rather than the 100 or 200 we thought we had.

Grim stuff. Especially if you live on the coast.

Guardian Unlimited

"You ask yourself how someone can grin at the sufferings and humiliation of another human being - drag a naked Iraqi man along the floor with a leash? set guard dogs at the genitals and legs of cowering, naked prisoners? rape and sodomise prisoners? force shackled hooded prisoners to masturbate or commit sexual acts with each other? beat prisoners to death? - and feel naive in asking the questions, since the answer is, self-evidently: people do these things to other people. Not just in Nazi concentration camps and in Abu Ghraib when it was run by Saddam Hussein. Americans, too, do them when they have permission. When they are told or made to feel that those over whom they have absolute power deserve to be mistreated, humiliated, tormented. They do them when they are led to believe that the people they are torturing belong to an inferior, despicable race or religion. For the meaning of these pictures is not just that these acts were performed, but that their perpetrators had no sense that there was anything wrong in what the pictures show. Even more appalling, since the pictures were meant to be circulated and seen by many people, it was all fun. And this idea of fun is, alas, more and more - contrary to what Mr Bush is telling the world - part of "the true nature and heart of America".

"The charges against most of the people detained in the prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan being non-existent - the Red Cross estimates that 70% to 90% of those being held have apparently committed no crime other than simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught up in some sweep of "suspects" - the principal justification for holding them is "interrogation". Interrogation about what? About anything. Whatever the detainee might know. If interrogation is the point of detaining prisoners indefinitely, then physical coercion, humiliation and torture become inevitable."

Susan Sontag in the Guardian today. Interesting read, especially from an American author. Basically it sums up as: "Most Americans seem to think it's OK to torture someone, as long as they aren't American. Non-American life is worth less, or worthless maybe".

Piers Morgan:

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Sonia Ghandi:

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And finally, Barbara Cassini

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Fucking numpty can't even speak.

Uncle Scary has been sent on a course.:

"'Tell us something that's important in your life.'
'Transvestisism. Manhole covers.'"

Or the old favourite:

"Ok then, any questions?"
"Are you wearing eyeliner?"

Obviously, only works if it s a bloke asking you. (Apologies to Peter Kay).

Bush defends his vision for Iraq:

"Mr Bush also said the US would demolish Abu Ghraib prison after the handover of power, if Iraq's new government agreed. "

It's nothing to do with the prison, it's what went on inside. Don't make the prison the evil here.

Of course, Americans will probably buy into it.

A much better film